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Specification of Letters Patent. Patamper} Sgprh 1911",?

Application filed March 13, 1907. 7 Serial No. 362,111.

To all whom it may concern:

it known that 1, Campus EDWARD Hornrns, a citizen of the United States, and residentof Worcester, in' the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, but

i at present residing at 38 Camberwell New hand means for transferring the newly cast and therefore unfinished stereotype from a stereotypetransferring frame D to the top surface of a drum or stereotype receiver and automatic means for only cutting oif the so-called riser and tail or valve slug these being the margins respectively above and below the printing form-and leaving the curved ends of the stereotype trimmed and beveled. The specification of an intermediate patent-19333 of 1905described a linishin apparatus in which the newly cast stereotype was placed upon a receiver, moved by hand along the latter to ahollow cylinder, the cylinderbeingthen connected by hand with a continuously rotating gear having an automatic stop, so that the cylinder and stereotype should'be'stopped at the end of each rotation. This cylinder had combiued with it, automatic means for locking the stereotype to its internal face, so that i .e stereotype should be carried around with it without slipping, andfor unlocking it at the end of a rotation; cutters driven by the gearing to cut off the riser and valve slug, and trim mid bevel the curved ends of the stereotype; a knife to shave the concave face of the stereotype; and knives to trim its two strai ht side edges. After the stereotype had been finished it was removed from the cylinoer by hand or pushed out by the following stereotype and placed printing face outward, upon a horse upon which it was locked so that its printing face could be examined and any minor defects in it made good. i i

The present invention comprises: (a) an improved arrangement of stereotype carryi 0g frame, stereotype receiver, and finishing apparatus, in which the stereotype-carr in g frame and stereotype-receiver are side by side and the stereotype-receiver substantially axially alined with the finishmg apparatus.

(7)) an improved stereotype-receiver approximately alined by itsown weight or by that of the newly-cast stereotype with the hollow finishing cylinder;

(0) making the transference of the said stereotype from the stereotype -carrying frame D? or its equivalent, start the finishing apparatus and means starting is eifected;

(d) an improved conveyor for taking the said stereotype from the receiver and placing it properly within the said cylinder within the zones of the trimming and beveling cutters, and shaving knife; 7

(6) improved means for automatically stopping the finishing apparatus as soon as a stereotype has been finished; and

means by which the attendant can stop any moving part of the apparatus, excepting the cutters at any point during one by which such pf its cycles, to prevent an accident which may be imminent. y

Referring to the accom fanying drawings which are to be taken as part of this specification and read therewith:

liigure l is a front elevation showing the improved finishing apparatus and the associated wasting apparatus in the at rest pOSlUOll,

Fig. 2, a side elevation corresponding with 1 but including additional positions of the stereotype and con'veyer;

. Fig. a plan corresponding with theFat rest position of Fig. 1, but omittingi'the stereotype i 3 Fig. t, an enlarged front elevation show ing three different positions of the stereotype carrying frame and its cooperation with the stereotype-receiver;

Fig. 5, a sectional front elevation showing the cooperation of the stereotype re ceiver with the starting lever of the finishing apparatus;

6, a lefthand side elevation of Fig. 5 looking at it in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 7, an enlarged section of part of the driving connections Fig. 8, an enlarged side elevation looking at Fig. 9 in the direction of the arrow, of the same connections, the four positions of the radial arm 264, 265 corresponding respectively with Figs. 15,16, 17 and 18;

Fig. 9, an enlarged front elevation and section corresponding withFigs. 7 and 8;

Fig. 10, an enlarged side elevation of the cam that reciprocates the conveyer;

Fig. 11, an enlarged perspective view of part of the means for reciprocating the conveyer;

Fig. 12, an enlarged sectional front elevation of the finishing cylinder with an unfinished stereotype in it;

Fig. 13, an enlarged side elevation corresponding therewith;

Fig. 14, an enlarged front elevation of the remaining part of the driving connections;

Fig. 15, an enlarged detail side elevation of the starting rod and connected parts, in the at rest position;

Fig. 16, a like elevation of the same parts when the stereotypeis on the receiver, the detent disengaged from the ratchet wheel and the driving clutch on the point of being closed;

Fig. 17, a like elevation differing from Fig. 16 only in the driving clutch having been closed; and

Fig. 18, a like elevation but showing the compound radial arm 264, 265 in the position it occupies when the conveyer has nearly reached the finishing cylinder in its first motion to the front.

Combination of casting apparatus and finishing apparatus, impro'vect stereotype reeeioer, and the automatic starting of the finishing apparatus, (Figs. 1 to 6, '8, 9 and.

15 to 18.)-In the apparatus of Patent 12850 of 1903, the transferring frame D was semi-circular in front elevation and the newly cast stereotype lay upon it, printing face downward, as shown in Fig. 4 hereof. It is pivoted by the pivot ct to the respec* tive side of the bottom D of the drag, as shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4, so that swinging it upward and to one side, puts the said stereotype into areversed position, i. e., with its concave face downward. The object of swinging the said stereotype into this position; was to make it meet the stereotype re ceiver, on to which the stereotype is to be transferred. lhis receiver was a drum G which was made to rise to meet the frame D by the upward motion of the latter, and cooperated with the cutters that cut off the riser and valve slug and beveled the ends of the stereotype. According to the present invention, the receiver is independent of all cutting means and is a semi-circular frame instead of a drum, such frame consisting of two segments 119, 120, connected by two parallel bars 121, 122 each having a horizontal ledge 123, 124, the latter being positioned to receive and support the said stereotype as shown best in Fig. 4, the segments being cut away along the line 135 -Fig. 4- to enable the transverse ribs 125-Fig. 4 and the sprue 135 that is cast in the valve nozzle 45 of the cope C, to clear them when the conveyer pulls the stereotype off the receiver. The ledge 124 has a centralridge 124 -Fig. 4extending for the full length of it to engage in a corresponding groove in the respective side edge of the said stereotype. It is the equivalent of the angle bar 103 of the Patent 4300 of 1906 and serves the same purpose; The segments 119, 120, stand well within the length of the printing face of the stereotype 100, as showni'in Fig. 2, in order that the riser 126 andvalve slug 127 as well as the lug 128cm the concave face of the riser 126 and which the co'nveyerseizes hold of when the latter has to pull the newly cast stereotype off the receiver 119 to- 124, into the hollow finishing cylinder described farther on, may all three overhang the said segments This receiver is pivoted by lugs 129, 130, whichradiate from its segments 119, 120, at about its center, to theadjacent ends of levers131, 132 fulcrumed on a fixed axis 133 in the frame 134 of the finishing a apparatus, the opposite ends of the said leverscarrying rollers 136'and extending far enough toward the pivot line cl of the frame D", for the said rollers to be engaged by projections 137 on the latter, and which projections will, when the frame D is,

swung up, rock the said opposite ends down" ward, and the receiver 119 to 124, upward and toward the then approaching stereotype, as shown by theset of dot and dash lines A in Fig. 4. Further, this receiver is connected by links 138, 139, which are pivoted by their respective ends to pivots 140 located between its center and the side of it next to the frame D and pivots 141 on the frame 134, below the fulcrum line of the above mentioned levers 1'31, 132, the effect of such linkage being to rock the rising receiver far enough over to meet the rising stereotype, so that when they do meet, their circular contours shall be parallel with each other. This improved receiver is so mounted and located in the apparatus with reference to the finishing cylinder, that when ithas an unfinished stereotype upon it, its axis is a little lower than that of the finishing cylinder and a little to one side the 'rightof it. In the Patent'12S50/03, the right side of the newly cast stereotype on the drum Ct was lower than the left side when the said drum began to carry the stereotype past the cutters G But the linkage just mentioned has 7 the effect of making the improved receiver 119 124 hold the tops of. its ledges 123, 124in the horizontal plane when thenewlycast stereotype is ready for the conveyer to push it toward the finishing cylinder. 140 is a so-called starting-lever fulcruined upon the frame 134, having its longer arm under the edge 179 of the receiver and its shorter and opposite arm engaged with the top end of a starting rod 141. The spring 144 is preferably a spiral one surrounding the rod 141 and resilient between the. guide 142 and a collar 145 beneath it and fast on the rod 141. 1 6 is a collar fast on the same rod 141 above the guide 142 to prevent the return of the rod 141 rocking the nose of the lever 140 too high for the side edge 179 to engage with it. The weight of the rod 141 supplemented (it maybe) by a weak spring 144, is relied on to return it. 142, 143 are guides fast on the frame 134, for the rod 141 to slide in. The starting rod 141 has a bell crank lever 147 fulcrumed on it, this lever being generally parallel with the rod 141 and kept so by a spring 148 and a stop 149- the latter on the rod 141. The spring 148 is preferably a spiral one resilient between a lug 150 on the rod 141 and the top arm of the lever 147 and supported in its working position by a straight rod 151, fast by one end to the lug 150 and having the other passed through a hole in the said top arm of the lever 147, so that the latter can work freely over it. 152 is a lug on the lever 147 and 153 a projection on the side of a detent 154 pivoted on a fixed stud 154. 155 is a ratchet wheel combined with the driving clutch and 17 5 is a spring pulling from a fixed point in the frame 134 and on the detent 154 to engage it with the wheel 155.

Driving connections, (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 14 to 18.)The driving shaft extends lengthwise of the frame 134 and is rotated constantly through a driving pulley 181. A worm 182 fast on it, drives a worm wheel 183 which is loose on a transverse shaft 184 in the rear end of the frame 134. The inner face of this worm wheel 183 is hollowed out as shown in Figs. 7 and 9, to embrace several equally distanced driving pegs 184 fast to it and projecting from it in lines parallel with its axis, as well as a driving clutch 185 fast on the transverse shaft 184. This drivingclutch 185 has a radial driving pawl 186 pivoted on it, and a spring 187 fast to the clutch 185 and pulling the pawl 186 into the path of the pegs 184. Next to this driving clutch 185 is the ratchet wheel 155 above mentioned, loose on the transverse shaft 184, and having a radial driving arm 188 pivoted on its side and near its periphery, by a pivot 189 that is parallel with the shaft 184. A driving pin 189 is passed through the nose of the driving arm 188. the ratchet wheel 155, the driving pawl 186 and the driving clutch 185, holding the four together, but the ratchet wheel 155 has an arcuate slot 190 about the pin 189 to allow of it moving independently of the other three pieces 185, 186 and 188. The shaft 184 has fast on it, a worm 191 engaging in a worm wheel. 192 fast on a shaft 193 parallel with the driving shaft 180 to rotate the finishing cylinder 213 (described in. the following section) intermittently. This intermittence is secured by a mutilated gear 194 fast on the shaft 193 and a train of gears 195, 196, 197, 198, between it and a gear 199-011 the periphery of the said cylinder. The gears 195, 196 are fast together and turn on a horizontal stud 201 fast to the frame 134, the two gears 197, 198 being each fast on a shaft turning in bearings in the said frame. 203, 204 are the cutters for separating the riser 126 and valve slug 127 from the stereotype 100. They are shaped so as to produce a bevel upon the respective end of the said stereotype. Both are of the rotary type and are carried on the ends of their respective shafts 207, 208, which are also arranged lengthwise of the apparatus and are rotated at a proper rate by belt drives 209, 210, from large pulleys 211, 211, on the driving shaft 180 on to small pulleys 212, 212 on the respective shafts 207, 208. The shaft 193 carries a cam 262 to actuate the stereotype conveyer described farther on.

Finishing a h nder, (Figs. 1 to 3, 12 to 14.)-This cylinder2l3 is hollow, having a clear way through it, and turns in bearing rings 214, 215 supported by the frame 134 of the apparatus. Each ring is made, for the sake of convenience, in two halves joined together by bolts passed through lugs 216, and is fixed to the frame 134 by bolts and flanges 217. The cylinder 213 is located in front of the stereotype receiver 119 to 124 (already described) and approximately axially alincd with the lower position of the latter. 218, 219Figs. 12 and 14*are two supports for the unfinished stereotype. They project 'adially inward from the internal face of the cylinder 213. the former fixed and the latter movable nearly vertically. but both standing at the same level and in. the same plane as the stereotype supports on the receiver, when the cylinder 213 is standing still and receiving the said stereotype. The internal diameter of this cylinder is equal to the external diameter of the unfinished stereotype, but the said level of the supports 218, 219 is lower than the horizontal diameter of the cylinder, so that there is a space 220 between the stereotype 100 and the arch of the cylinder 213 at the moment the con veyer leaves the unfinished stereotype on the supperts 218, 219. The movable support 219 has a longitudinal ridge with which a groove in the respective side edge of the unfinished stereotype engages as the latter is pushed into, and the riser 126 through, the cylinder. This groove is no part of the present invention. The stereotype 100 stands-Figs. 12 and 1-1with one side edge on the fixed support 218 at a short distance from the adjacent cylinder face and with the opposite edge on the vertically movable support 219. 222 is a clearance space formed lengthwise in the internal face of the cylinder, opposite the support 219, and this latter is set laterally into this space 222, i. 6., away from its fellow support 218, so that when the unfinished stereotype is engaged by the groove in its right side edge,

. on the ridge 221, neither side margins of the printing form can possibly scrape against the cylinder 213. The support 219 is fast on two hips 223, 224Figs. 12 and 13 which project to the right from it through one or two suitable openings 225 in the side of the cylinder 213, sufliciently high to allow of the reciprocating and nearly vertical motion of the said support. The latter receives this motion from rods 226, 227, to which the lugs 223, 224 are fast. The rods 226, 227 slide in lugs 228 projecting from the respective side of the cylinder to serve as guides for the said motion. These guides 228 hold the rods 226, 227, with their upper ends inclined toward the cylinder 213, a. e., the said rods are at'an angle with the horizontal diameter of the said cylinder and the space 222 is inclined upward at the same angle. The tops of the rods 226, 227 are, respectively, connected to, preferably, the bottom arms of bell crank levers 229, fulcrumed at 230 on the cylinder 213, their opposite arms being,

' respectively, kept in the paths of cams 231,

232 by sprmgs 233, 234, pulling on them from fixed points on the opposite side of the said cylinder. fast on the respective cylinder bearing rings 214,- 215. At the moment the unfinished stereotype is properly positioned on the supports 213 219, the bell crank levers 229, are on the highest points of the cams 231, 232 and the movable support 219 is therefore in its lowest position as shown in Fig. 12. As the rotation of the cylinder 213 carries the levers 229 with it, the springs 233, 234, pull the rods 226, 227, toward the cylinder top as the rollers 235 on the said levers roll down the right hand inclines on the cams, therebv making the movable support 219 push the stereotype 100 up to the opposite inside face of the cylinder 213 and obliquely up to the cylinder top, and lastly clamp it, and the riser 126 and valve slug 127 with it, in that position. As the movable support 219 is held by springs, it will always hold the stereotype 100 firmly against the cvlincler 213 no matter what may be the arcual length of it, because springs can and will automatically ClBEIl WIth any variation in this length. The cylinder 213 re'e'ngages the bell crank levers 229, with the opposite left hand inclines of the cams 231, 232 as it nears the end of a rotation The cams 231, 232, are

the travel of the rollers 235 up these inclines lowering the support 219 to its original position, thereby unclamping the stereotype.

The-clamped stereotype 100 presents its riser 126 and valve slug 127 outside the re spective end of the cylinder 213 as shown in Fig. 2, and the rotary cutters 203, 204, already described, are similarly positioned but between a horizontal and a vertical diameter of the said cylinder, where they are rotated at a proper speed. 236 -Figs. 12 and 13is a bracket fast to the ring 215 and projecting to the front. It is wide enough from front to rear to support the riser 126 so that the weight'of the latter as it is nearly severed from the stereotype 100, shall not wrench at the latter, and narrow enough to allow. it to overbalance and drop when it has been severed. 1 237 is a similar bracket fast to the ring 214 to similarly support the valve slug 127 and allow it to drop. The usual shaving knife 238 for shaving the inside face of the stereotype 100, stands on the opposite side of the cylinder to the cutters 203, 204 and below the horizontal diameter. It is fixed to a bracket 239 that is radially adjustable on the guide 251 in which the conveyer reciprocates. The riser 126 and valve slug 127 are both almost completely severed by the respective cutters 203, 204 before the stereotype 100 comes up to the knife 238. 236, 237 are suitable brackets fast tothe main frame and projecting from it in front of the cylinder 213 to receive the finished stereotype 100 as the conveyer pushes it out of the said cylinder. The latter is stationary while an unfinished stereotype is being pushed into it and rotated only during the time the said stereotype is being clamped, finished, and unclamped, these three stages being begun and carried through during a single rotation of the cylinder. The mutilated gear 194 already mentioned, is therefore set on its shaft 193 to get into gear with the next driven member 195 of the driving gear, at the moment when the conveyer has delivered on unfinished stereotype on to the cylinder supports 218, 219, and todisengage from that gear, at the moment when the cylinder 213 has completed the respective rotation. To prevent any erratic motion on the part of the cylinder 213, there is provided an automatic cylinder lock consisting of a V-notch 240-Fig. l4in a projection fast on the outside of the clyinder; a V-nosed detent 241 on the top end of a detent lever 242 fulcrumed at 246 on a bracket 247-Fig. 12fast on the frame 134 and adapted to engage the notch 240 when the cylinder 213 is in its stationary position; a cam 243 fast, preferably, on the shaft 193 and in constant engagement with the detent lever 242 to make it rock the detent 241 into the notch 240 as soon as the cylinder 213 has completed a rotation and toallow it to be out of engagement at othertiines; and a spring actuated device to keep the detent 2 11 disengaged. This device is shown in Fig. 12, as consistingof a spring 2463 pulling from the bracket 24:70:11 a bel l crank lever 24% fulcrmned at 2 15 onthe frame 134 and carryinga pin 2 1 5 in constant engagement with the lever 242.

The stereotype cmw'eyer, (Figs. 1 to 3 and 10 to 12.)-This organ of the apparatus is situated behind the finishing cylinder 213 and in front of ti stereotype receiver 119 to 124;. When the latter has an unfinished stereotype on it, its ledges 123, 12 i, register with the supports 218 219, onthe cylinder 213, before the support 219 is raised. The function of the conveyer is tothentake hold of the unfinished stereotype by engaging with the lug 1.28 already described, to move it forward upto the conveyer stop (described farther on) far enough to push the said: stereotype fairly on to the supports 2-18, 219, in the cylinder 213, to stop inth-is forward position for a short time, to move rearward to nearly its original position while the rotation of the cylinder is finishing the stereotype 100, to stop in this rear posi" tion for a short time, to then engage with the rear end of the finished stereotype and push it forward out of the cylinder 213 on to the brackets 23 6 237 to then: return to its original position and tow it there until the descent of the stereotype receiver 119424, with another unfinished stereotype on it, starts the apparatus again. Theconveyer consists of a vertical. cylindrical head 246 and a finger 24'? working piston-wise within the head 246 from and above the top of which, it is projected and held by a spring 248 seated within thehead 24 6 the finger being also capable of passin dbwnward through the bottom of the h9:iClFig. 12.

When the 'conveyer is in its rear position, the lug 128 comes down just in front of the finger 247. The unfinished stereotype on the frame D and the receiver 1194241, meet each other with sufficient force to make the ridge 124? on the receiver, wedgeitself in the corresponding groove in the unfinished stereotype and as it is the top of the riser 126 that carries the lug 128 (the part on which the conveyer pushes), the rear half of the stereotype would be likely (especially if the ridge 12% is not wedged into the rear portion of the said groove as tightly *as it is in-the front portion of the same) to tip up off theledges 12, 12st and drop back on to them again when the'conveyer had suc ceeded in pushing the stereotype for a short distance. i iometiines it might not drop back on to the ledges, before it was up to the cylinder 213, in which case the front of the riser 126 could not slide properly on to the supports 218a 2159 inst-he said cylinder;

To prevent this wedging of'the front half and pin being so positioned that the stereotype shall coniedown upon the finger 2457 and press it down into the head 2% as far as the slot and pin device will. allow before the receiver 11912:i hasreached its lowest position, which will have the effect of slightly separating the front portion of the said groove froin therespective portion of the ridge1 24. Further, the said slot and pin device must allow the finger 2&7 to rise high enough to engage the rear end of the finished stereotype 100, to push the latte out of the cylinder 2'13, Fhe head reciprocates in a fixed) horizontal guide This guide extends lengthwise of the apparatus, through the cylinder 213, is proportioned to the length of the travel of the conveyor and is fixed upon the frame 13%; It has a guide way in which engages a guiding lug 253fast on the side of the head 246 and which extends for a short distance forward of the said head to steady its nio t io'n along the said guide way. The means for reciprocating the conveyeii' head 24:6 consist of a link pivoted by one end to the. said head and by the other end to the top end: of a lever 255 fulcrunie'd in a rock shaft 256 mounted in the frame 134, con to head necting rod 257 from the lever 258 to both of which it is piw ll ed, fixed horizontal gu des 259. 259; be 2 en which the head 258 reciprocates and a roller 260 engaging in a groove 261 in a c m 262 fast on the shaft 193. This groove 261 is set out so as to impart the above described alternate motions and rests to the conveyor, all properly timed. It may sometimes happen that an unfinished stereotype will not movefreely alon the ledges 123, 124. ierehy resisting the forward motion of the lever 255, to the extent even of bending itteinporarily backward a little; (It is intern tionall-y long enough to permit of its being so bent and of afterward straigl'rtening itself without any part of the inc ns reciprocating the conveyer being haired). To compensate for thisbending back of the lever 255, the cam groove 261 is set so as to move the conveyer farther to the front than is theoretically necessary to plzsh the unfinished stereotype into the cylinder 213, and the guide 251 carries fixed stop which is so positioned thereon, that the bottom end of the fin 2-427; projected by the Weight of the said stereotype, below the conveyer head 246 for thispurpose, en.;:i

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